Pop Tap Beat's latest exclusive brings back to the table one of the few units in the J-Pop/Pops crowd that could boster a top-starred challenge in Taiko games, with a former (cover) song of their own...
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megitu (Megitsune)Once again -and for the first time since 2016- it's Babymetal time! Since the launch window of the PS Vita's Taiko no Tatsujin V Version with Gimme Choco!!, there was no other representation for the infamous "kawaii metal" band in Taiko, up until late September this year... and with the one single to predate the release of the same Gimme Choco, at that!
Megitsune (lit. 'Vixen') was released on June 19th, 2013 as the band's fifth overall single, later becoming one of the tracks featured in the unit's first studio album alongside Gimme Choco!! (Babymetal) and, most prominently, was the first release to be completely independent from the idol-versed "father project" that spawned the Babymetal act as a spinoff of sorts: the early-2010's Sakura Gakuin (さくら学院). Ultimately, it reached top-20 peaks across Japanese charts (7th on Oricon and Billboard Hot Singles), with a surprising 14th place for overseas world digical sales as well, according to US World.
Created by the same talents behind the already-mentioned-aplenty, chocolate-seeking tune and with the band's nicknamed NORiMETAL as the lyricist, this song's creation and direction has been described in many occasions as a "Metal Matsuri", where music from the East and the West is meshed together for a spin from your average ondo song: shouts and screams from your average metal songs are replaces with familiar 'wasshoi' and 'sore sore' chanting and dubstep influxes are infused to the classic "Sakura Sakura" folk song, all in service of describing a woman hiding her secrets and feelings in the same way a fox (kitsune) would, albeit by different means from the animals. To better drive the point home, the same Megitsune release also came out in three separate limited editions labeled 'Ki', 'Tsu' and 'Ne', each with exclusive live material from the band's former live concerts on toe!
In contrast with the brutal-pacing V Version debutant of yore, Megitsune's Oni setting plays it more on the technical side, where the base BPM is only doubled for a great deal of its Go-Go Time portion alone (and even that, with the scrolling speed being halved all around). Composite clusters are still a sizeable threat even at 140ish BPM though, so if you're aiming for an accuracy refresher on this kind of charting approach, any place is just as good to start practising!
